thanks for your advice, I realize my problems, can you give me some materials like some study routine for pg-internal?
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jacktby@xxxxxxxxx
>"jacktby@xxxxxxxxx" <jacktby@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> When I add
>> "{ oid => '6015', oid_symbol => 'SPB_AM_OID',
>> descr => 'SPB index access method',
>> amname => 'spb', amhandler => 'spbhandler', amtype => 'i' },"
>> in pg_am.dat
>> and add
>> "{ oid => '388', descr => 'spb index access method handler',
>> proname => 'spbhandler', provolatile => 'v',
>> prorettype => 'index_am_handler', proargtypes => 'internal',
>> prosrc => 'spbhandler' }," in pg_proc.dat,
>> so when I use the make install && cd contrib;make install;
>> whether it equals to execute create access method?
>
>Did you run initdb afterwards? What you describe here should
>result in an updated postgres.bki file, but that isn't the
>same as catalog entries in a live database.
>
>> And Sorry for the another mail "access method xxx does not exist", you suggest me add new
>> Am Index in contrib, But I need to modify gist to spb, so that's not my require. And I need to know
>> add those in pg_proc.dat and pg_am.dat, if it won't create access method for spb, what else I need to
>> do?
>
>To be very blunt, it doesn't sound to me that your skills with
>Postgres are anywhere near up to the task of writing a new
>index access method. You should start with some less-ambitious
>project to gain some familiarity with the code base.
>
> regards, tom lane
